Nicholas Hobbs
| Nicholas Hobbs | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 13, 1915 Greenville, South Carolina |
| Died | January 23, 1983 (aged 67) Nashville, Tennessee |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Education |
The Citadel Ohio State University |
| Known for | Past president, American Psychological Association |
Nicholas Hobbs (March 13, 1915 – January 23, 1983) was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Hobbs graduated from The Citadel in Charleston, SC in 1936. He then moved to Ohio State University where he studied under Carl Rogers and Sidney Pressey. He received his master's in educational psychology in 1938. During World War II, he served in the Air Force and directed the Aviation Psychology Program, helping to establish the selection process for that branch of the military. He would then return to Ohio State University and receive his PhD. in educational psychology in 1946. He served as the director of the clinical psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University from 1946-1950. At Columbia University, he met Mary Thompson among his graduate students there and they married in 1949. Nicholas became chair of the psychology department at Louisiana State University from 1950-1951, then moved to chair the Division of Human Development at George Peabody College for Teachers (then a separate school, now part of Vanderbilt University) where he served until 1965. He resigned from this post in order to take on the role of Director of the John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, now known as the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, which he and Susan Gray established. In the academic year of 1954-1955, he taught as a visiting professor in the psychology department at Harvard University. From 1956-1960 he worked as a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Humanistic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania. He served as provost of Vanderbilt University from 1967-1975, after which he helped to found the Vanderbilt Institute for Policy Studies, establishing and serving as the first director of that Institute's Center for the Study of Families and Children until retiring in 1980.
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